Spring and Autumn I Am King

Chapter 872: evenly matched

ps: There is another chapter at 12:00

The city head changes the king's flag, and this sentence is more suitable to describe the song.

Once upon a time, this was the center of the oriental world. Dayi merchants sealed the territory for hundreds of miles, making rough but high-spirited black bird sculptures and huge bronze tripods to defend the Yin capital until it was conquered by the Zhou people and the towering high platform was destroyed. , treasures were burned or buried under the dust, and the status of the Yin people also plummeted.

After that, Wei Guo, Chi Di, and Fan Clan became the masters of this place one after another. Until a reincarnation of 600 years, the Ying Zhao Clan, who was once listed as Fang Guo Houbo in this big city, returned with the mysterious bird totem. Here, it occupies the halls and temples built by Fan.

It has been six years since the Zhao clan occupied Chaoge. Fan clan’s rule in the local area was not a good one, and they collected a lot of taxes. As time passed, Chaoge people gradually forgot about them, and only a few generations were left to serve Fan. Shi's retainers have been obsessed with it all the time. When Zhao Wuxi entered Chaoge at the end of March, he was also attacked by an attempted assassination...

Fortunately, there was no danger, and Yulin's guard Chi Chi Mei soon discovered the abnormality. He kicked the assassin to the ground with one foot and found the dagger hidden in his arms.

Although there was no danger, it still shocked Zhao's retainers. Chaoge Ling Cheng Tuan proposed to block the entire Chaoge. For three days, he must hunt down Fan's remaining party.

Zhao Wuxi refused: "You can get it secretly, you don't need to recruit the public, that will make the price of food in Chaoge City soar. If the people are dissatisfied, the number of people who shelter the chaotic party will only increase."

Hedong, Hanoi and Henan are located in the center of the world, like the three legs of a tripod. They are the places where the ancient emperors changed their capitals. The founding of the country took hundreds or even thousands of years. The land here is small but fertile, and the population is the largest, so the local Folk customs are stingy and frugal, familiar with the world, and it is not easy to get their loyalty.

So digesting a piece of conquered land will take at least a generation, more than ten years, and it can only be done subtly through various means. Zhao Wuxi did not ask Chaoge and the people of Hanoi to be as loyal to himself as Jinyang and Wenxian. He did not even use Hanoi as the main source of troops, but as a granary. Food comes from the Hanoi region.

Zhao Wuxi came to Chaoge to inspect the situation of spring ploughing.

Food is a necessary prerequisite for the operation of the country, the government, and the army. In this era of relying on the sky, if there is a famine in Hanoi one day, Zhao Wuxi's regime will have to stop.

Ji Ran is the chief designer of Zhao's "planned economy", although his strategy does not seem to be too brilliant: first reduce or exempt the people's taxes, and make the people rich, and then actively guide and reward farming, support and rescue natural disasters man-made people. Let the people concentrate their efforts on farming and weaving, let the fields be cultivated, the granaries are filled with grain, and the people are rich and prosperous. But don't let the people have nothing to do and waste man and material resources. This is the point of contradiction between him and Ren Zhang's extreme "rest with the people". Ji Ran advocates exhausting the people's power to create greater wealth and assign it to the government.

Only by laying a solid material foundation can the army be adequately prepared and trained to defeat a slack and unprepared enemy country. Historically, it was only by means of strategic strategies that the country of Yue, which had lost its combat effectiveness, was able to gradually recover and complete the great cause of destroying Wu. I don't know how the southern Yue King Goujian will come back after a few strategies...

Here, Zhao Wuxi ended the war with Qi early, and quickly disbanded the Hanoi and Hebei laborers who had been recruited to transport grain, and let them return to the land to cultivate. 's wrestling.

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The country of Zheng is not a fish-belly character like the country of Wei. The peaceful development of the 50 years after the Battle of the Soldiers, and the stable and cooperative relationship between the seven and the Mu, made the country of Zheng prosper again. It has come out of the historical shadow of "only the strong is dependent", and began to pursue the independent diplomatic strategy of "the country does not compete with the mausoleum, what country does it?", and it was more active on the international stage in the late Spring and Autumn Period.

In the sixth year of Duke Ding of Lu, Zheng State destroyed Xu State, a vassal state of Chu. In the same year, during the rebellion of Zhou Zichao, Zheng State took the opportunity to attack Feng, Hua, Mi, Neusi, Foxren, and Quewai, six cities of Zhou, and opened up the Go to Ilo's gate. Later, they formed an alliance with Qi and Wei in an attempt to get rid of the state of Jin. When the Song Dynasty was in a state of chaos, they seized the gap and built six cities. Although they had to return to the state of Song after the Zhao family won the civil war in Jin, they were once again stubborn. Seized food and got the Shangluo area.

When Qi, Wei, and Song fought several civil strife and wars, they became weaker and weaker, but Zheng Guo became stronger without knowing it. Their biggest loss was only the one or two thousand soldiers lost in the battle of Meng Zhu.

Zhao Wuxi clearly knew that in the original history, the decisive battle of the civil strife of the six ministers of the Jin Kingdom, the "Battle of Iron", ended only last year. Zhao Yang was injured. In the Battle of Iron, Zheng Jun lost, but only lost "Qi Su", and the army still had a certain strength, which shows that Zheng's army was very strong at this time.

This is a copper pea that can't be steamed, boiled, hammered, and fried. Even Zhao Wuxi doesn't want to be the first to confront them, let alone the Han family who has always been at the bottom of the three families. .

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Han family will be defeated by Yao and Ziban, the younger generals of the younger generation of Zheng Guo Qimuli, when they raid Chenggao.

"If you don't have diamonds, don't do porcelain work. Who told you to not follow my plan." Duan Gui's stunning strategic plan, but he suffered a shameful failure in the execution of Han Jun's tactics, which caused the Han family to embarrassed. Yu Chenggao and Zhao Wuxi took a hint of schadenfreude, reminiscent of the "proud" record of Han's defeating Zheng in history.

"In the 16th year, Zheng attacked Han and defeated the Han soldiers in Nei Mi. In the 20th year, Han, Zhao, and Wei were listed as princes. In the 23rd year, Zheng surrounded Han Zhiyangzhai"... Just when Zhao Xiangzi easily destroyed the dynasty, At the same time that Wei Wenhou easily destroyed Zhongshan, South Korea was on a par with Zheng Guo. It was indistinguishable. Destroying Zheng Chenggong will take a full hundred years.

Today, Han's population and military strength are similar to Zheng's. Except for the first move, there is not much advantage, and the two sides are evenly matched.

Because Zhao Wuxi did not stop it clearly, Han Hu's army was stationed in Nanyan just like that, and they continued to send troops to attack Zhengdi. Purchased by Song and Wei states.

Zheng Guo reacted very quickly after being attacked, and the famous general Yousu quickly came over with a force comparable to that of the Han army, and the two sides were deadlocked. The country dragged on, unable to concentrate troops to attack the territory they wanted.

Throughout April, there was no war on the east front, while the Han army on the west front attacked Chenggao one after another, losing two or three thousand people, but they still did not take it. . However, at the beginning of April, Zheng Guo's labor was also concentrated, and when he started to go to the front line, the Han family couldn't hold on.

As the saying goes, "If you attack a city, you will be defeated, and if you attack your division for a long time, the country will not be able to use it." In order to win this battle, Han's aggressively recruited laborers from Shangdang and Hanoi, which delayed the spring plowing. Human reinforcements arrived~lightnovelpub.net~ cooperated with the Chenggao defenders to attack from inside and outside, and I was afraid that they would lose another battle.

After thinking about it, Han Hu gritted his teeth and had no choice but to send someone to ask for help from the Wei family and Zhao family, and even invited Song Guo to help.

However, Wei's side was very dissatisfied with Han's rash attack on Zheng, delaying next year's action against Qin, and attacking Zheng by crossing Zhao Han would not benefit them in the slightest. They simply rejected Han's request for help, citing that Qin and Zheng were allies, and in order to prevent Qin from helping Zheng, they had to take a good look at the west gate of Jin.

As for the Song Kingdom, as the traditional enemy of the Zheng Kingdom, he naturally agreed, but he was just too timid to govern, so he sent someone to talk to the Zhao family first.

On the Zhao family's side, there were people who couldn't wait to attack Zheng.

Zhao Wuxi's subordinates were the most honorable, but their powers were also the most ambiguous, but Wang Sunsheng, the grandson of King Chu Ping, who was the mascot of recruiting talents, did not hesitate at all this time, and immediately came out to ask for the battle: "Zhao, Han and Song divide up the kingdom of Zheng, and lose it. The capital of the country, slaughtering its people, and destroying its society and crops, the Zhao clan's prestige can reach as far as Jingchu and deter Wu Yue! Please be the vanguard!"

(To be continued.)